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Frak

Syfy May Downgrade Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome Back to Webseries

by Susana Polo | 12:10 pm, August 25th, 2011


When the Syfy Channel’s Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome was announced as the second prequel to the wildly popular 2004 series, it was planned to air as a webseries, a segmented story that would be aired online. Then, Caprica, Syfy’s first prequel to BSG was canned, and the network apparently decided that it didn’t have to worry about viewer fatigue from having two different BSG stories airing at the same general time, and filmed Blood and Chrome as a TV movie instead.

Now, after viewing the pre-post-production footage of Blood and Chrome, according to io9, Syfy has grown lukewarm on the idea of a BSG TV movie again, and are considering chopping up the footage into a webseries. Which is great, because now they’ll have room in their schedule for more reruns of Sharktopus, Dinocroc vs. Supergator, and Ghost Hunters.

From io9:

[Mark Stern, Syfy executive vice president,] said that a decision on Blood and Chrome‘s release date was not imminent, and it was still a possibility that they would air it as a TV movie/backdoor pilot. But they’re seriously considering transforming it back into a series of webisodes.

Blood and Chrome covers the earlier life of William Adama, before he would become the highest ranking military officer in the group of about fifty thousand human survivors of the Cylon invasion, in his first taste of combat in the first Cylon war.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/SmokeyPSD Paul Down

    :( Caprica should have never been canned to begin with. I didn’t care much for how Blood and Chrome sounded.

  • Anonymous

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  • Anonymous

    Considering the crap that Syfy is putting out with Ghost Hunters et al, I couldn’t care less. The only thing I watch is Sanctuary. The unscripted crap on TV these days is why I just went with HBO and Starz.

  • Anonymous

    I also liked Caprica very much.   A real plot with human (Caprican?) feelings and conflicts between the generations.   Just like us!   Except for the question, what happens when the technology allows us to “save” our child in virtual space?    What happens to her/him?  What happens to the parents?  How about us?  How are we affected?    

    Also, how does the star go from a machine based existence to one we see in BSG where the human formed cylons appear? That must have been quite a conversation they had before building them.   Maybe someone will write a book?   

    Why depend on the Networks for our Sci Fi?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LOIB5NVS5PIP5WFQ75DA7IZITI Michael

    I loved Caprica as well, but gotta say that Blood and Chrome sounded incredible.  I’ll be pissed if this ends up being the way they go!  It sounded more like BSG, which is my favorite show of all time so I had very high hopes to say the least.

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